The American Navy has parted with the last non-nuclear aircraft carriers. Yesterday, October 7, the portal thedrive.com He reported that the US Navy sold the ships USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy.
Both aircraft carriers were sold for scrapping to International Shipbreaking Ltd at a symbolic price of 1 cent per ship. This cost is due to the fact that the disposal of ships is an expensive process, and the company will receive its profit only after the sale of metal.
Aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) in storage
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The aircraft carriers were decommissioned more than a decade ago and were in storage. Previously, proposals were considered to create museums from the ships or even return them to service. The final decision on disposal was made in 2017, after which the aircraft carriers were demilitarized.
USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy were the last aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy equipped with non-nuclear power plants. These ships were commissioned in the 60s, the displacement of each of them is over 80,000 tons.
